City Hall and New York’s major building staff union have struck a deal that officials hope will help combat the Big Apple’s rat epidemic by cutting the amount of time trash bags sit on the street overnight.

The deal with 32BJ SEIU means that most large residential buildings in the five boroughs will now put their trash on the curb at 8 pm — instead of the current 4 pm, which officials say may be the earliest times anywhere in the country.

Those bags will now be picked by New York’s Strongest working on a recently implemented overnight shift, slashing the amount of time garbage bags spend on the curb from roughly 14 to just four hours. 

Mayor Eric Adams and Sanitation Commissioner Jessie Tische said at a Monday press conference that the move would mean rats would have dramatically less time to get into the trash, which has provided vermin with a virtually unlimited supply of food.

“Everyone that knows me knows one thing: I hate rats,” Hizzoner declared. “We’re gonna kill rats. Rats have no place in this city.”

Additionally, the agreement would allow landlords to register for routes that would allow them to set out their trash early in the morning — between 4 am and 7 am — if that better fits staffing schedules.

Those routes will be picked by Sanitation workers on the traditional 6am shift.

Commercial establishments like shops and restaurants will be required to either put their trash out at the newly established times, or keep their trash in plastic bins instead of just leaving it on the curbside shortly before closing.

Officials said that the changes would be budget neutral because they were simply rearranging shift schedules, not expanding overtime.

Citywide, 311 has logged more than 22,500 reported rat sightings since January — with  Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant and Queens’ Ridgewood accounting for the zip codes with the highest number of complaints.

The Department of Sanitation first previewed the potential rule change in July, saying that allowing bags to sit out on the streets for hours on end effectively created a citywide ‘all-you-can’ buffet for rats, providing rocket fuel for vermin problems.

City Hall and the Sanitation Department have also rolled out a separate pilot program in at least two neighborhoods that aims to curb the rat problem by having residents and businesses put their trash bags in storage containers located on each block.

The new trash container bins have been rolled out in Times Square and in Brooklyn Heights along Montague Street. City Hall has promised the pilot program will be expanded to include locations in all five boroughs.